“Skyping just leaves me bereft and then I have to go and drown my sorrows in the bar.”

“In previous years I’ve been able to take my family with me but we had a daughter this time last year and so bringing her and my son, he’s about to start school and it all became a bit of a juggling mission.

Kris wanted to spend more time with his family after spending six months a year in the Caribbean filming Death in Paradise

“So that was really the reason behind it.”

Meanwhile other names linked to the new Doctor Who include Game of Thrones actor Richard Madden, Olivia Colman and even Kelly Brook, who admitted on Friday's Lorraine she would be open to auditioning to become the first female Doctor.